On 1/9/02 9:13 PM, "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:45, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: >> On 1/9/02 8:30 PM, "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:24, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: >>>> Here's a quick question - what makes that a rule? Ted putting it into a >>>> file? >>> >>> It is a legal requirement for the license to be valid. >> >> Of course. What I am asking is what makes it a Jakarta rule that the >> mentioned procedure is how it's supposed to work. See what I'm getting at? > > not really sure what you mean. The one thing that the PMC is required to do > is enforce all the legalities of stuff. This is legality thing that has to be > done. The PMC has to enforce regardless or not it is in the "rules" for > jakarta Never mind. My point wasn't important. I'll try to explain OOB. > >> Jon said "put that rule in" and I was wondering about the process of when >> we decided that specific thing was a rule. > > I don't see it as an addition - merely documenting something that already is > implictly a rule. I never knew about this sort of thing until about 9 months > ago when a lawyer tried to explain it all to me (though failed at some parts > cause I had no idea what he was talking about). > > Documenting it is good because then people who know not a lot about legalese > and friends don't have to think ;) Yes, I know. It's good. No argument. > If it was an actualy change proposed it would have to go through the whole > propose, bitchslap, whine, vote, propose, whine, bitchslap, vote .... until > it got accepted (and ignored), agreed to or everyone thought the subjects was > dull and stopped participating ;) Again, I'll try OOB. -- Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] System and Software Consulting "We will be judged not by the monuments we build, but by the monuments we destroy" - Ada Louise Huxtable -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
